Ibrahim Eidarous

Ibrahim Eidarous (1957-2008) was the head of the London-based chapter of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement.

Biography
Ibrahim Eidarous was born in Egypt in 1957 to a Sunni Arab family, and he became a member of the Qutbist Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization. Eidarous was good at forging passports, and he would later go on to fight with the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War and accompany Ayman al-Zawahiri on trips to the Sudan and Yemen. In 1996, he became the leader of the EIJ in England, and he also initiated EIJ's activity in Azerbaijan. In 1998, he was arrested in London for his affiliation with a terrorist group, and he was suspected of involvement in the US embassy bombings of that same year. He died in 2008 of leukemia while under house arrest.